The veteran politician, who is preparing his bid for the State Duma after being barred from the 2024 presidential elections, seeks to ‘overcome the post-imperial syndrome and bring Russia back into Europe’
The US president says the Russian leader has promised to stop bombing as freezing cold temperatures grip the country
Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ marks 1,418 days on January 12
Country’s leading political prisoner defense group warns of its critical situation due to lack of funds
Volodymyr Zelenskiy is hoping the US president will run out of patience with Vladimir Putin as his military prepares for a prolonged war
Sergey Lavrov claims Moscow has identified the targets it will bomb following an alleged strike on a presidential residence in Novgorod
With Trump stepping back, NATO faces the challenge of responding to the Russian threat while seeking lessons from almost four years of the war in Ukraine
Stanislav Orlov, who united diehard soccer fans under a volunteer brigade fighting on Russia’s side, was shot dead by his own country’s security forces in Crimea
Vladimir Putin says the White House’s original proposal ‘can be used as the basis for a final peaceful settlement’ in Ukraine
Russia is offering discounts of up to $23 per barrel before the US president’s measures on its two major oil companies take effect
A photograph of a soldier with three dead bodies has sparked a bloody challenge between combatants on both sides
Russian president warns of costly repercussions after China also stops buying his country’s crude — and India may be next
Russia tells US and EU leaders that it is not interested in a ceasefire in Ukraine
Kim Jong-Un’s regime reaffirms its alliance with Russia through a major exhibition that portrays an idyllic image of the country and its involvement in the Ukrainian war
The Kremlin awards medals, positions, public appearances, and biopics to agents of its ‘illegal intelligence’ services that sow chaos in the West
Moscow is cracking down on complaints calling for the return of troops three years after the draft that shocked Russia
The military exercises being staged in Belarus, a repeat of those in 2021 that preceded the invasion of Ukraine, are taking place just two days after the Russian drone incursion into Poland
Complete control of the depressed industrial belt of eastern Ukraine, from which millions of Ukrainians have fled in the last decade, would offer a major victory to Putin and put Kyiv at risk of a new invasion
The Russian economic engine is showing clear signs of exhaustion — a reality the Kremlin is beginning to acknowledge. The military-driven boom of 2023 and 2024 is now in the past
Illegal activities incur costs of more than $19 trillion (more than China’s GDP), slow down growth and investments and accelerate inequality
The Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church have persecuted dozens of clergy who called for peace. Ecclesiastical courts strip them of their guarantees
The second Istanbul meeting confirms that Moscow has no intention of stopping the war by making demands that imply Kyiv’s surrender
The Russian government is hosting over 100 delegations at a security forum that has become a weapons showcase
The UN and NGOs report that more than 120 dissidents are seriously ill in prison
The textbooks written by the head of the Russian delegation that negotiated with Ukraine in Istanbul last week extol the conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries while minimizing the millions of victims
Moscow launches another controversial set of measures to try to stop the demographic decline, now worsened by war-related mortality
The warring nations ‘are on the right track,’ Vladimir Putin stated